COLERIDGE: POETICA

Coleridge wrote the “Lyrical Ballads” together with Wordsworth: the first concerning about supernatural, the second about everyday life; even if he wrote just few poems for this collection (only four), was he to adopt the ballad structure and themes.His poems find their typical dramatic atmosphere in medieval settings and they are full of mystery and supernatural events; he often writes about distant places and time (exoticism) and gives musicality to his poems through the use of special sounds, words and devices in order to create an unreal atmosphere. The poet took inspiration in a state of trance, of ecstasy, sometimes under the effect of medical opium.